All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.

As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because, when all was said and done, his own death would in the first place mean that of the whole world?

A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.

To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not.